Photos and Instructions by: Dr. J.
Michael Kerrigan and James W. Harbert
1. Remove left
grip and magazine.
2. Grip pistol
with right hand with your thumb on the
magazine release. Press down with barrel
against firm padded surface. Barrel will
move back about ¼ inch.
3. With
opposite hand pull down on trigger guard as
right thumb keeps magazine release
depressed.
4. The trigger
guard will move down on the frame in its
dovetail until it moves clear of the frame.
5. Trigger
group fully removed from pistol.
6. Depress end
of firing spring protruding from the center
of the safety knob and unscrew the safety
knob counterclockwise until it comes free of
the pistol.
7. Safety knob
removed from pistol.
8. Pull barrel
to the left and tilt up until the
barrel/bolt assembly comes clear of the
pistol.
9. Extract
bolt from barrel/bolt assembly by pulling
the bolt to the right. The bolt comes clear
with the two recoil springs and the firing
spring-firing pin assembly contained within
it.
10. Extract the firing pin spring and
firing pin from the bolt as well as the two
recoil springs.
11. Be
careful The magazine release spring is very
small and depends on the magazine release
button to keep it in the body of the pistol.
12. With the
magazine release and spring removed rotate
the safety to the five o’clock position
where it can be lifted away from and out of
the body of the pistol.
13. The
detent on the shaft of the safety just below
the actuator arm. The body of the pistol has
a milled passage at the five o’clock
position to clear this detent.
Reassembly
Instructions
14. Place recoil springs, firing pin, and
firing pin spring in bolt assembly as well
as replacing the sear in the base of the
barrel. Replace firing pin, firing pin
spring recoil springs and sear.
15.
Having replaced the safety, the magazine
release spring, and the magazine release,
insert bolt assembly into barrel and insert
the combination down and to the right in the
body of the pistol.
16. Start
screwing the safety knob on the bolt
assembly until the firing pin protrusion is
as shown. There is a recess in the back of
the bolt that the “finger" on the firing pin
must fit into in order to achieve this fit.
17. Depress
the barrel back out of the pistol so the
trigger group can be started into it’s dove
tail on the body of the pistol.
18. The
magazine release must again be depressed for
the trigger group to slide completely into
place.
19. Slide
the trigger into place.
20.
Completed assembly of the Nambu Type 14
pistol.
